Alan Jones, that years driver's champion, with his Williams FW07b

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If teams perform badly, they get little air time, which means advertisers get less air time. That means less money in advertising for those F1 teams.

In order to get on the podium and more air time, they need a good driver yeah? Someone like a Max, Alonso etc. That makes sense.

But does that sort of get thrown out the window when you have a lot of team funding from the driver's parents or backing? (correct me if I'm wrong).

• Lance stroll is terrible. Gets outqualified by Alonso many times. Stroll does nothing with the car while Alonso puts it in podiums and at least gets points.
• Yuki Tsunoda is okay at best and not amazing (even after many years). Thing is Honda has a relationship with Red Bull or something. Makes many errors.
• Zhou has a 30 million dollar backing from Chinese companies. Zhou has been outqualified by Bottas. Valtteri Bottas 17-1 Zhou Guanyu .. in qualifying.
• Ricciardo was a highly marketable driver and for a few years, the "face" of F1. His driving adaptability isn't the best. In qualifying... Daniel Ricciardo 6-12 Yuki Tsunoda
• Perez has progressively gotten worse in F1 compared to Max, but he brings in a lot of Merch sales and has some good sponsors. He's also very popular. Max destroys perez. In qualifying .. Max Verstappen 17-1 Sergio Perez.

Any drivers that gets beaten 17 to 1 would be fired any day of the week if they weren't bringing in money right?

Hello. I am planning to go to next year. I've never been to a GP so I would like help from the community regarding some questions I have:

• now that the 2024 tickets are mainly sold out, I'm struggling to find info about how much each grandstand ticket might cost.
• is it permitted to enter with a DSLR camera, zoom lens, to the grandstands? Canon EOS SL2 with 18-200 lens to be exact. What about GoPro or selfie sticks?
• any recommendations about affordable places to stay? We are 2 or 3 guys, 35 to 40 yrs old, going, and I've been to Sao Paulo before, but just for 3 days. I am aware the city is dangerous but my country has its dangerous places as well so I know the basics of how to survive hehehe.
• Do all the tickets cover the 3 days? Or it's possible to buy for Saturday and Sunday, missing the Friday practices?

Thanks in advance for any tips and extra info you want to add.

visited ExCel today for the exhibition… it was great - highly recommend to anyone here.

Cars from the 80’s, old helmuts & suits, prototype chassis’; the RB16 and of course - Grosjeans fireball remains. Also the British GP and WDC trophies were present.

There was plenty of literature as well, with wireless audio headsets for tuning into different screens dotted around the place.

10/10!